"Executive Produced by"

[Joel S. Berson]

What's new or strange here?  Programs on TV often
have a half-dozen or more Producers, with various
adjectives, including Executive, added.  Is it
the verbing rather than the adjective?  If the
title "executive producer" is permitted by AMPAS,
and the verbal form "produced" is permitted, why
wouldn't "executive produced" also be permitted?

Joel

At 11/3/2012 11:09 AM, Martin Kaminer wrote:
>As seen on a billboard yesterday ("Executive Produced by Jay-Z").
>Inevitable I suppose though I was under the impression that the
>Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences guards against change in
>movie-related job titles with ferocity unseen outside of L'Académie
>française but perhaps not. And regardless this is a video game -
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkkfIPHqn50
>
>Interesting to see the P still capitalized, wonder if that will change.
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